Aux armes citoyens! or at least put on your yellow hi-vis. In the last month, 50 years after the explosion of 1968, the French are once again taking to the streets. Whereas Mai 68 was a cocktail of demands for a freer more open society, Decembre 18 is more a cry of anger about a stagnant standard of living.

UKIP or a Farage alternative will shoot up in the polls if free movement is kept, the only reason they have fallen since 2015 is both the Tories and Labour promised to leave the single market and end free movement and the Tories in particular focused higher border controls and more skills based immigration

If net European migration continues to trend towards zero it will lose all salience and no-one will be bothered by the principle. It was only in the context of high immigration overall that it became a political football.

Net European migration has been dropping because people thought we were leaving the EU. If we decide not to it will quickly reverse again.

OTOH, the meme that the UK is a nasty intolerant place for EU citizens may continue to have an effect for years to come. It does not matter if it is true or not, so long as it exists and is believed.

Of course it matters if it is true or not. It makes addressing the meme very different.

Parliament has considered the recent opinion proffered by the electorate that the UK should leave the EU, and regrettably has found that opinion to be rabid, pig-ignorant and stultifyingly ill-informed.

As such, we will not be bringing forward legislation to enact this terrible opinion at this time.

Parliament thanks you for the opportunity to be involved in your poorly thought out opinions, and hopes you will consider us again next time you need somebody to point out when you're being massive idiots.

I can't see it. 10 DUP votes seem to be lost without hope of recovery or reconciliation, and is it 65 or so declared non-supporters of the deal on the Tory backbenches (and I would guesstimate another 2-3 ministerial resignations to vote against, before the big vote) So who will tell everyone that they have changed their mind, are now backing the PM? And once you've got that first name, who are the other 60 who will need to do so? That's how little wriggle room the PM has.

EDIT: Actually one non-Tory who's come out helpfully this week is Lady Sylvia Hernon. And Ian Austin has made supportive noises on the Labour side. So in fairness, I should only ask you to give 58 Tory MPs who will say they have changed their mind, not 60.

Your enthusiasms for referendums does you credit. On the EU, we must have a referendum if public opinion changes? If public opinion (based on any opinion poll) switches back and forth as it may well do, that means another referendum each time, surely? Or is only until you get the result you want?

If we escape from this train of horrors, I very much doubt people will want to go through it all over again. If they do, so be it.

Most likely, we continue to be increasingly unhappy members of the EU, continually complaining about the direction of travel.

Yep. This is the Remainer delusion. That if we vote to cancel Brexit then everything will not just go back to the way it was but will be 'settled'. It really is amazing how they can kid themselves about this.

Opinions of Leave voters are I think far more hostile to the EU now than they were two years ago as a consequence of the way the EU has conducted itself. Some may have come around to the view that for now it might be better to stay, given that the UK government's abject approach to negotiation offers only a settlement that amounts to national humiliation. But they do so on sufferance and that means that nothing is settled.

There will be a fourth "Peoples' Vote" in the not too distant future (after 1975, 2016 and no doubt 2019). If the vote is then for Leave and the UK is led by a Government with a working majority and which supports that course resolutely and wholeheartedly, who the EU knows will be willing to walk away from negotiations, then the EU will be in deep trouble.

Parliament has considered the recent opinion proffered by the electorate that the UK should leave the EU, and regrettably has found that we can't do this without creating either a constitutional, legal or economic calamity.

As such, we're stuck and need you to get us out of this mess.

Parliament invites you to vote UKIP, neo-SDP or EDL at the next election.

I can't see it. 10 DUP votes seem to be lost without hope of recovery or reconciliation, and is it 65 or so declared non-supporters of the deal on the Tory backbenches (and I would guesstimate another 2-3 ministerial resignations to vote against, before the big vote) So who will tell everyone that they have changed their mind, are now backing the PM? And once you've got that first name, who are the other 60 who will need to do so? That's how little wriggle room the PM has.

Buzzfeed has the total at 103 Tory backbenchers declared against.

If thirty more are still considering (though I suspect the full unvarnished horror of the legal advice might end that consideration), we could be looking at, ooh, 120 or more Tories against?

Pro Remain HoC refuses to implement and asks the public to vote again.

They didn't "refuse to implement"

They spent 2 years of blood and treasure and couldn't get it done

Rubbish. The House has been opposed to Brexit from the start. This is just the natural conclusion of their plan to derail it.

Good

Because you perceive no downsides. but brexit reflected a view it didn't create it. The problems remain. Ultras who only care about their ideal outcome are the same no matter which side they are on - reckless.

Parliament has considered the recent opinion proffered by the electorate that the UK should leave the EU, and regrettably has found that we can't do this without creating either a constitutional, legal or economic calamity.

As such, we're stuck and need you to get us out of this mess.

Parliament invites you to vote UKIP, neo-SDP or EDL at the next election.

Kindest Regards,

Parliament

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

This chart is the chart that shows why May cannot convince anybody to support her deal.

Interesting. There has been a shift towards Remain coinciding with a revelation of the lousy humiliating settlement that this Government says is the only deal in town. But the fact that people think that the Government could have done a lot better suggests that the shift in opinion is for the present only, and that people would vote again for Brexit if they felt that they could rely on a Government to do better next time.

Fuel tax suspended, today talk of u-turn in recent tax changes. Is It possible to reform France when they even go nuts over totally radical way out there proposal of considering academic achievement when selecting admissions to massively oversubscribed uni courses.

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

This is what Brexit has done.

You won.

Suck it up.

It will never be the fault of those who warned against it, campaigned against it, or voted against it.

Both France and Germany are going through a poltical crisis of confidence. The voters are restless and the politicians dont know what to do.

Macron is a bit like Mrs May its only the lack of decent alternative making him credible. Today he has had a further climbdown but Paris looks as if its back to the barricades this Saturday The sans culottes can smell fear and will pile of the pressure.

This chart is the chart that shows why May cannot convince anybody to support her deal.

Interesting. There has been a shift towards Remain coinciding with a revelation of the lousy humiliating settlement that this Government says is the only deal in town. But the fact that people think that the Government could have done a lot better suggests that the shift in opinion is for the present only, and that people would vote again for Brexit if they felt that they could rely on a Government to do better next time.

The two statements in the question are not strict alternatives.

It is easily possible to believe the government could have negotiated better, but that we can't now negotiate better.

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

Your friend Richard North has started talking about bombmaking. You were always extremists.

Pro Remain HoC refuses to implement and asks the public to vote again.

They didn't "refuse to implement"

They spent 2 years of blood and treasure and couldn't get it done

Rubbish. The House has been opposed to Brexit from the start. This is just the natural conclusion of their plan to derail it.

Good

Because you perceive no downsides. but brexit reflected a view it didn't create it. The problems remain. Ultras who only care about their ideal outcome are the same no matter which side they are on - reckless.

Actually, that was to give Richard something to fulminate against

Brexit is permanently damaging whether we stay or go. It has no upsides at all.

Parliament has considered the recent opinion proffered by the electorate that the UK should leave the EU, and regrettably has found that opinion to be rabid, pig-ignorant and stultifyingly ill-informed.

As such, we will not be bringing forward legislation to enact this terrible opinion at this time.

Parliament thanks you for the opportunity to be involved in your poorly thought out opinions, and hopes you will consider us again next time you need somebody to point out when you're being massive idiots.

Fuel tax suspended, today talk of u-turn in recent tax changes. Is It possible to reform France when they even go nuts over totally radical way out there proposal of considering academic achievement when selecting admissions to massively oversubscribed uni courses.

On universities, we should move to a lottery system. It would save academics a lot of time on deeply flawed interviews, and would remove biases on grounds of sex, race, religion as well as the old school tie. And because a lottery could be run quickly by computer, it could wait for A-level results so there is your academic achievement, to be used primarily to set minimum standards and not to ration places.

That aside, for decades now we've been sneering at the unreformed French but for all they've done things differently from us, the net result is that France and the UK have similarly sized economies, ahead of Italy but behind Germany.

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

Your friend Richard North has started talking about bombmaking. You were always extremists.

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

This is what Brexit has done.

You won.

Suck it up.

It will never be the fault of those who warned against it, campaigned against it, or voted against it.

It is entirely your fault. It is you who have lied and dissembled about the consequences of Brexit from day 1. And now you want to make sure it doesn't happen so you can't be proved wrong.

Fuel tax suspended, today talk of u-turn in recent tax changes. Is It possible to reform France when they even go nuts over totally radical way out there proposal of considering academic achievement when selecting admissions to massively oversubscribed uni courses.

On universities, we should move to a lottery system. It would save academics a lot of time on deeply flawed interviews, and would remove biases on grounds of sex, race, religion as well as the old school tie. And because a lottery could be run quickly by computer, it could wait for A-level results so there is your academic achievement, to be used primarily to set minimum standards and not to ration places.

That aside, for decades now we've been sneering at the unreformed French but for all they've done things differently from us, the net result is that France and the UK have similarly sized economies, ahead of Italy but behind Germany.

I have argued for years that the UK should move to post results admissions. That in itself would level the playing field hugely as we would get away from this nonsense of predicted grades.

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

Your friend Richard North has started talking about bombmaking. You were always extremists.

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

This is what Brexit has done.

You won.

Suck it up.

It will never be the fault of those who warned against it, campaigned against it, or voted against it.

It is entirely your fault. It is you who have lied and dissembled about the consequences of Brexit from day 1. And now you want to make sure it doesn't happen so you can't be proved wrong.

That is an astonishing piece of self-delusion and it is going to force me to post the laughing seal image again (and I save that for special occasions)

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

Your friend Richard North has started talking about bombmaking. You were always extremists.

twitter.com/richardaenorth/status/1068509802777595904?s=21

Who is Richard North?

He wrote a book with Christopher Booker called The Great Deception which was responsible for a lot of the tropes about how Heath didn't tell people the truth when we joined.

More than 6,000 US service veterans have killed themselves each year since 2008, according to the VA data. Veteran suicide rates increased 25.9% between 2005 and 2016, as suicide rates in the overall US population also increased.

The suicide rate was 1.5 times greater for veterans than for adults who never served in the military, even after adjusting for age and gender.

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

This is what Brexit has done.

You won.

Suck it up.

It will never be the fault of those who warned against it, campaigned against it, or voted against it.

It is entirely your fault. It is you who have lied and dissembled about the consequences of Brexit from day 1. And now you want to make sure it doesn't happen so you can't be proved wrong.

Lol. Because we've all been impressed with the thoughtful, co-ordinated and systematic way in which the leading Brexiters have set about progressing their vision since June 2016.

Parliament has considered the recent opinion proffered by the electorate that the UK should leave the EU, and regrettably has found that we can't do this without creating either a constitutional, legal or economic calamity.

As such, we're stuck and need you to get us out of this mess.

Parliament invites you to vote UKIP, neo-SDP or EDL at the next election.

Kindest Regards,

Parliament

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

The politician who has benefitted the most from Brexit is Jeremy Corbyn. Before the referendum he was a derided no-hoper, laughed at by all who considered themselves serious players. Now his ascension to Downing Street is widely seen as inevitable.

Parliament has considered the recent opinion proffered by the electorate that the UK should leave the EU, and regrettably has found that we can't do this without creating either a constitutional, legal or economic calamity.

As such, we're stuck and need you to get us out of this mess.

Parliament invites you to vote UKIP, neo-SDP or EDL at the next election.

Kindest Regards,

Parliament

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

The politician who has benefitted the most from Brexit is Jeremy Corbyn. Before the referendum he was a derided no-hoper, laughed at by all who considered themselves serious players. Now his ascension to Downing Street is widely seen as inevitable.

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

This is what Brexit has done.

You won.

Suck it up.

It will never be the fault of those who warned against it, campaigned against it, or voted against it.

It is entirely your fault. It is you who have lied and dissembled about the consequences of Brexit from day 1. And now you want to make sure it doesn't happen so you can't be proved wrong.

Lol. Because we've all been impressed with the thoughtful, co-ordinated and systematic way in which the leading Brexiters have set about progressing their vision since June 2016.

Given they were never in a position to do so I wonder why you are surprised about this.

The USA and UK are a little unusual in life expectancy trends. We have stalled or regressed, while our peers continue to improve.

I am not surprised that US Veterans have a high rate of suicide. The combination of PTSD and knowledge of means, combined with loss of social support is a toxic one. I think our veterans get a poor deal too.

I take it nothing new was learnt with the release of the legal advice?

Quite a lot I would suggest. It is certainly substantially worse than was being touted in the summary. Still better than Remain of course but a toss up with No Deal depending on how accurate the forecasts for both are.

Parliament has considered the recent opinion proffered by the electorate that the UK should leave the EU, and regrettably has found that we can't do this without creating either a constitutional, legal or economic calamity.

As such, we're stuck and need you to get us out of this mess.

Parliament invites you to vote UKIP, neo-SDP or EDL at the next election.

Kindest Regards,

Parliament

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

The politician who has benefitted the most from Brexit is Jeremy Corbyn. Before the referendum he was a derided no-hoper, laughed at by all who considered themselves serious players. Now his ascension to Downing Street is widely seen as inevitable.

to his credit Corbyn has kept closer to voter concerns. The rest with their upper middle class angst fest have disappeared into a bubble of their own.

According to the Independent, some who are discussing how to ensure that Sunday's pro-Leave anti-Deal march in London is a success are suggesting that participants wear yellow safety jackets. Continental influences, huh?

It sounds as though every twit thinks of himself as a master strategist because Facebook allows him to scribble something on their wall. One difference between France and Britain is that in France drivers are obliged to carry hi-vis jackets in their cars, so the country is awash with them.

But apparently a lot of coaches have been booked, so the protest is unlikely to be a small event that features only 20 or so tattooed men in their 40s whose longest usual "march" is from the betting shop to the pub.

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

This is what Brexit has done.

You won.

Suck it up.

It will never be the fault of those who warned against it, campaigned against it, or voted against it.

It is entirely your fault. It is you who have lied and dissembled about the consequences of Brexit from day 1. And now you want to make sure it doesn't happen so you can't be proved wrong.

That is an astonishing piece of self-delusion and it is going to force me to post the laughing seal image again (and I save that for special occasions)

The delusion is all yours I am afraid. Of course whatever happens you will be fine in your bolthole.

Parliament has considered the recent opinion proffered by the electorate that the UK should leave the EU, and regrettably has found that we can't do this without creating either a constitutional, legal or economic calamity.

As such, we're stuck and need you to get us out of this mess.

Parliament invites you to vote UKIP, neo-SDP or EDL at the next election.

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

This is what Brexit has done.

You won.

Suck it up.

It will never be the fault of those who warned against it, campaigned against it, or voted against it.

It is entirely your fault. It is you who have lied and dissembled about the consequences of Brexit from day 1. And now you want to make sure it doesn't happen so you can't be proved wrong.

Lol. Because we've all been impressed with the thoughtful, co-ordinated and systematic way in which the leading Brexiters have set about progressing their vision since June 2016.

Given they were never in a position to do so I wonder why you are surprised about this.

IF that is true, it took an awfully long time for our erstwhile Brexit Secretary to realise as much.Or isn't he a true enough believer for you ?

It's a cunning version of a unicorn: a future theoretical unicorn. Would probably be legally unworkable, and/or challenged at the time, but who cares. Provides an excuse for declared antis who want to change.

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

This is what Brexit has done.

You won.

Suck it up.

It will never be the fault of those who warned against it, campaigned against it, or voted against it.

It is entirely your fault. It is you who have lied and dissembled about the consequences of Brexit from day 1. And now you want to make sure it doesn't happen so you can't be proved wrong.

Lol. Because we've all been impressed with the thoughtful, co-ordinated and systematic way in which the leading Brexiters have set about progressing their vision since June 2016.

Given they were never in a position to do so I wonder why you are surprised about this.

They were in the Cabinet. Some where even holders of Great Offices of State. At least, the ones who did not run away were....

Hotspots for "People's vote" almost all very anti-Tory (Except Cambridge surrounds). Bristol West & Brighton Pavilion top areas.

Its a very useful map to keep if you want to easily locate Bristol, Edinburgh Oxford and Cambridge! I see only 59 people have signed in Mike Gapes working class diverse Ilford South seat compared to 600-700 in many more prosperous inner London seats.

Perhaps it should be renamed the 'posh people's vote' or 'the 'people in areas where average house prices exceed £500k' vote' or the 'I love my free Waitrose daily coffee people's vote'

It's a cunning version of a unicorn: a future theoretical unicorn. Would probably be legally unworkable, and/or challenged at the time, but who cares. Provides an excuse for declared antis who want to change.

I think the idea would be to give parliament the choice between extending transition and falling into the backstop. It's purely a cosmetic concession.

If you believe in economic forecasting models that have a terrible predictive history, don't account for different profiles of migration types, future dislocations from Euro problems or political ramifications.

Excellent. I hope that they set up one of the Citizen Science websites to process data for it. I have been involved with those in the past and there has been some really good results from them and I would not mind contributing time to do more analyses.

If you believe in economic forecasting models that have a terrible predictive history, don't account for different profiles of migration types, future dislocations from Euro problems or political ramifications.

Public borrowing has actually dropped quite sharply (and in line with pre-Referendum forecasts) since June 2016.

Sadly there will be very large numbers who will take them up on that offer or will not bother to vote at all. That is what the Remainers will have done. They will have made extremism acceptable and democracy a dirty word.

This is what Brexit has done.

You won.

Suck it up.

It will never be the fault of those who warned against it, campaigned against it, or voted against it.

It is entirely your fault. It is you who have lied and dissembled about the consequences of Brexit from day 1. And now you want to make sure it doesn't happen so you can't be proved wrong.

Lol. Because we've all been impressed with the thoughtful, co-ordinated and systematic way in which the leading Brexiters have set about progressing their vision since June 2016.

A Brexit deal is on the table. If Remainers vote it down, that will be your side's action that you are responsible for.

Excellent. I hope that they set up one of the Citizen Science websites to process data for it. I have been involved with those in the past and there has been some really good results from them and I would not mind contributing time to do more analyses.